romney's plans are stuck in the past. the president was first out of the gate today with a rally down in florida this afternoon. the president told his crowd of supporters the romney campaign is just not telling the truth about his plans and says romney's policies will not add jobs but end up raising taxes on the middle class. for the republican's part mitt romney was in nevada along with vice presidential candidate paul ryan. governor romney said that the president is attacking him for making up for a lack of a plan for obama's second term. both candidates eventually said the other isn't telling the truth. >> his deficit plan doesn't reduce the deficit. it adds to it. his foreign policies from the 1980s. his social policy's from the 1950s. his economic policies are from the 1920s. so everything he's doing right now is to hide his real

position. >> this is a status quo candidacy. his is a -- message of going forward with the same policies the last four years and that's why his campaign is slipping and that's why ours is gaining so much steam. >> reporter: you know the president also made a bit of news last night for our region during the debate on the subject of defense cuts, the president said flatly that the sequestration cuts that could result in a loss of thousands of defense industry jobs in our area, the president's words would not happen. however, ryan during an interview today with an obama campaign spokesperson, they would not be able to tell fox 5 how the president can guarantee that these congressionally mandated cuts are going to be avoided in the president's words. >> all right. tom fitzgerald tonight and now to the tight senate race in virginia between former governors george allen and tim kaine. today allen appeared on fox 5 morning news and says he's confident he'll pull out a win in two weeks. >> people are responding to our very positive message, we've

put out from the very beginning of our campaign. our blueprint for america's comeback. and it is ways of getting more jobs in our country with more competive and simple tax palties. have -- policies. have reasonable regular laces -- regulations, they can get the country sending again and i think the virginia januaries also recognize we will decide whether we do have a change in washington. whether it's in the senate or the presidential race. >> next tuesday, former governor tim kaine will be on fox 5 morning news, the reason polls show kaine narrowly leading appen. we are aing a special one hour debate between the candidates in at least the candidates in the maryland senate race. live on wednesday, october 3 it's at 9:00 a.m. they will join moderator fox 5's tony perkins. and a reminder at 6:30 tonight, fox 5 news edge you decide 2012 focusing on both local and national candidates and issues during the final duoweeks of

the campaign. tonight we're going to look at the last-minute media blitz by both president obama and governor romney. plus a debate on maryland's question 7, both sides of the gambling issue will join us live. i'll be your host and we will be joined by fox 5's political reporter tom fitzgerald and political analyst mark plot kin. a news alert from the bay bridge. both sides of the bay bridge now finally open. after a tanker truck was leaking propane. it happened earlier this afternoon. both spans of the bridge initially closed. then the eastbound span opened about an hour ago. now both sides opened. police say they've removed the truck from route 50 but clean- up efforts are now underway. the edge on maryland now where a manassas woman took police on a wild ride across two states that ended in montgomery county. the 27-year-old has been hospitalized after the afternoon long car chase and crash. paul wagner is live in rockville tonight. paul? >> reporter: it's a bit bizarre

brian. after a long investigation by police is that there were two naval security officers involved in trying to stop this woman outside the north entrance to the new walter reed. what we know is that she had struck two cars including a police cruiser and had made a u- turn and came back around when she encountered this two offers. one of -- officers. one of them used a metal baton an asp baton to knock out two of the car windows to get her attention. then she kept going. the second officer then opened fire. >> we're told there was a -- again a naval security person here. the car was coming towards that person. i think he was on foot. he discharged his firearm once. the round struck the vehicle. the woman continued into the intersection crossing over into the southbound lanes but traveling north to cedar. >> reporter: montgomery county police say just before the

shooting angela cobalt of manassas hit a car while trying to make a u-turn 59 the north entrance -- at the north entrance to the facility. she drone they have down the -- then drove down the pike before coming back to the north entrance where she struck a police cruiser and encountered the two officers. it all ended a few minutes later in rockville. where witnesses say cobalt had lost at least one tire and was driving on the rims before crashing into a fence. from the air, you can see cobalt struggled with police for quite some time before she was handcuffed and placed on a gurney. this is where it all ended on the street here in rockville. up against that fence behind me. we searched a number of records around the area online court records, anything we could find in virginia. the district and maryland. we found nothing at all for angela cobalt. she doesn't even have a traffic ticket that we can find. brian? the transit agency is

adding disclaimers to the controversial pro israeli ads. it's reported metro will add the statements to notify it is is a designated public forum and metro doesn't endorse the messages behind them. the ads went up earlier this month equating muslim radicals with savages. new tonight some strong words issued by opponents of same sex marriage in maryland. >> if we don't vote against it, then we are approving these things that are worthy of this. >> pastor anderson interpreting scripture and saying why marylanders should oppose question 6 allowing same sex couples to marry. he's a member of the maryland marriage alliance. they oppose the referendum. supporters were quick to denounce anderson's comments calling them intolerant. also new tonight supporter of same sex marriage in maryland plan to rally outside of gallaudet university on thursday. them show support for angela

mccaskill. she was serving as the university's chief diversity officer but was put on paid administrative leave after signing a petition supporting gay marriage in maryland. congressman jackson jr. is returning to the hospital for treatment on his mood disorder. the illinois drattic law make -- democratic lawmaker will undergo tests for bipolar disorder. he was released from the clinic in september. his colleagues say the congressman looks well but will remain under doctor's care. >> there was periods of great laughter and great levity and you know, but then there was also some periods where he wouldn't -- actually crying, okay? when he was thinking about the effects of all this on his family. >> jackson hasn't been campaigning for his november over the weekend but the family says he won't return to work until the doctors give him the okay. straight ahead here on the news edge, what happens in

vegas is supposed the stay in vegas. an unbelievable chip heist. >> real real warm out there and you know what? it likes like it's going to -- looks like it's going to stick around. question, how long are the unusually warm temperatures going to stay with us? full forecast is coming up. oh scott? >> yeah gary yesterday the skins went out and resigned chris cooley. today they picked up a teammate of his from 2010. how teammate keiland williams figures into it. brian? >> call us (202)895-3000. or mail us. we're back. anncr: seven-hundred-thousand jobs.

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papal letters is not over yet. an appeal is pending. the new york police department under fire after an informant says he was paid to bait muslims, 19-year-old ramen in the black shirt there claims the nydp used a strategy called create and capture. he waited for people outside mosques and started conversations about jihad or terrorism then reported the responses to police. ramen says he earned as much as $1,000 a month. authorities are investigating those claims. like a plot out of a movie. this time the bad guy got away. this man is accused of stealing more than $1.35 million in chips from the venetian. the california man snuck into a private area and stole the chips. he was caught on tape. he also didn't know it can be impossible to cash the things in. >> anybody that comes back to the casino to try and cash these chips or to play them will be met by security. >> definitely not like stealing cash which you can spend anywhere. there's pretty much one place on earth where you can cash

this chip in. and that's the people who have video of you stealing it. >> the man is wanted on suspicion of burglary, grand larceny among other things. an american astronaut joins two other explorers for a jury know to space. coming up why the rocket launch is important for nasa's retired space program. >> a high school teacher proves he's still got it after students challenge him to a danceoff. you see him do a little fancy work and the teacher responded with a little refer dance. the teacher had the -- river dance. the teacher had the entire cafeteria cheering and even got a few high fives. [ mitt romney ] we have to work on a collaborative basis. look, the reason i'm in this race is there are people that are really hurting today in this country. and we face this deficit --

could crush the future generations. and republicans and democrats both love america but we need to have leadership -- leadership in washington that will actually bring people together and get the job done and could not care less if it's a republican or a democrat. i've done it before, i'll do it again. i'm mitt romney, and i approve this message. we were told to build a 30-foot stage. gathered the guys and we built that 30-foot stage, not knowing what it was for.

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it's a turning point for nasa. a russian spacecraft surges into orbit. as fox news correspondent david lee miller tells us it's the first mission since the retirement of nasa's space shuttle fleet. >> three, two, one. and ignition. lift off. >> reporter: blasting off to the international space station, the soyuz spacecraft leaving its renovated launch pad for a two day journey. >> parameters are normal. >> reporter: on board two russians on their first mission. and an american astronaut kevin ford. who once piloted space shuttle discovery bang in 2009 to the -- back in 2009 to the iss. the problem has since been fixed after they took off. astronauts can only travel to space aboard russian vehicles,

each trip costing $60 million. with endeavour making the final journey to california this month nasa's fleet is now museum pieces. the u.s. space agency hoping to have private development. it will join other colleagues at the space outpost including americans williams. they'll spend five months in orbit and handle cargo and prepare operations. -- repair operations. in new york, david lee miller, fox news. auspice of history from the -- a piece of history is now in the hands of the smithsonian. that was worn by american pilot william ecker. he had the uniform on when he flew during the cuban missile crisis. he died in 2009 and his family decided to donate the suit in his memory. well, heck of a run we've had here in late october. continues i hear. >> we may pay for it next week. >> okay. >> i'm just saying you know? we got some stuff coming next

week but let's enjoy it while it's here right? this seeing nice. i -- evening nice. i mean we have some clouds out but temperatures today have been warm. no rain out there. we stay mild this eveningment all the rain is well up to the north of us. it's 77 now but let's look at temperatures. the highs today at least at national was 78. dulles close to 80. 79. and bwi marshall right in there too. 76. just so i now and you do know -- you know and you do know, all these temperatures are above where we should be. we should be in the middle 60s or so. in terms of average temperatures for the time of year. gaithersburg down to 70. frederick 75 and fredericksburg pardon me is still sitting at 80 degrees. little cooler by the water temperature and annapolis 70 degrees. stevensville across the bay is 68. and out there along i-81, temperatures from the upper 60s hagerstown to the lower 70s down towards winchester and martinsburg.

gorgeous evening. forecast calls for the temperatures to be dropping through into the middle 60s by later on and just a few clouds. again, in terms of any rain, it's well up to the north of us. this storm track this week. little dip out to the west, that brings the chilly weather there. and the unsettled weather too. there'll be snow at the higher elevations, as a matter of fact it's been snowing out in northern california. and as we come across the nation here, the ridge bumps up on our side of the country and that means warm unusually warm temperatures for us and this is going to stick around too. the trend show that is tomorrow lower 80s. little cooler on thursday but still nice. of course all this is bonus weather. 76 degrees on thursday. friday down to 73. and saturday, even though there's a chance for some showers on saturday, our temperatures are still going to be well up on the mild side with temperatures in the lower 70s. here's the satellite and radar together. notice the rain is staying to the north of us.

we've just had periods of passing clouds today. and you see some sprinkles of green around. those are just false echoes popping up with the composite radar there. no need to worry about rain this evening. low temperatures on the mild side this morning. 40s and lower 50s. tonight we're lower 60s and a few 50s out there. it depend on how much we have in the way of cloud cover just how low the temperatures out in the suburbs are going to get. of course if it clears up a little bit more temperatures will be just a little bit cooler. if not we're talking upper 50s lower 60s. another warm day tomorrow. gaithersburg how about 80? here in town how about 81. quantico 82. fredericksburg 82. they were 84 in fredericksburg earlier this afternoon. and i got to believe some of the communities around here down here -- down here tomorrow and tomorrow afternoon could be approaching the middle 80s. so not too chilly tomorrow morning. sun and clouds at noon and warm tomorrow afternoon. temperatures upper 07s and lower 80s.

and again, the trend continues nice on thursday. 76. some clouds on friday. 73. but your fox 5 accuweather seven day forecast. uh-oh things go downhill by sunday and monday. notice cold temperatures. settle in and a chance for some rain at least some chilly rain on sunday. that looks to be the wettest day of the weekend and of course coming up later on tonight we'll talk more about that tropical storm sandy that wants to come towards the east coast. brian? >> all right gary. smaller apple has fallen from the ipad tree. today the technology giant unveiled ipad mini. the smaller ipad is being describabled as thin as a pencil and has the same resolution as the ipad 2. expected to be competition for the smaller 7-inch tablets from companies like google and amazon. they start taking orders for the new model on friday and set you back $329, microsoft released the windows 8 operating system. the changes are the most widespread since the release of windows 95. 2 new system expected to tie

together microsoft's pc tablet and phone software with a look. microsoft hopes windows 8 sparks sales. >> the central of this is the metro screen. it's -- an array of colorful tiles that update information in realtime from news sources, weather sources. it will show your e-mail as they come in and that sort of thing. this is pretty much the biggest change we're going to see in windows since windows 95. 17 years ago. >> 8 is set to be released friday. nothing can rain on the giants' improbable march to the world series. scott smith on-deck with the sports edge next. ♪ >> physical you just got over -- if you just got over internet sensation rebecca black and her hit song

"friday." get ready to cover your ears again. the debut single "wilder" is set to take over. it's gotten over 1.8 million views since being posted on youtube. [ obama ] i'm barack obama, and i approve this message. [ female announcer ] seen this from mitt romney? then take a look at this. [ anderson cooper ] if roe v. wade was overturned, congress passed a federal ban on all abortions, and it came to your desk -- would you sign it? "yes" or "no"? let me say it -- i'd be delighted to sign that bill. [ female announcer ] banning all abortions? i'd be delighted to sign that bill. [ female announcer ] trying to mislead us? that's wrong. but ban all abortions? only...if you vote for him. ♪

the redskins have the nfl's most potent and productive rushing attack. morris and rg3 carry the load. combining for 202 of the 229 total rushing attempts this year. of what's leftover new running back williams will try to make an impact. the skins signs williams today after cutting grant. williams is in his third year in the league undrafted out of lsu but you remember he spend his rookie season with the skins in 2010. he appeared in 15 games and scored five touchdowns this year. three came against the philadelphia eagles in a monday night loss. williams spent the early part of this season in all of last

season with the detroit lions. the skins also added chris cooley yesterday. but low can pallson is now the -- logan pallson is now the main man. he is coming off a career game against the giants. four catches for 76 yards including a critical fourth and 10 conversion in the final two minutes. mike shanahan likes how the third year product out of ucla stepped up on sunday and his commitment all the time. >> he's a first one here. the last guy to leave. and you know after every game, he'll be -- he'll be in here watching film. he -- he takes a lot of pride in what he does. and it's no surprise he's playing at the level that he's played at because it's so important to him. so i expect him to play to very good level. very high level. and he's going to have to now that fred is gone. the world series is set. the tigers and giants square off in game one here on fox tomorrow night at 8:00. san francisco's run to the world series is one of the more

improbable ones. facing elimination six time this is postseason they passed the test all six times. waivers on hand last night. bottom of the 3rd, the giants lead 2-0. hunter pence with the bases loaded. base hit past shortstop pete kozma. one giant scores and pablo sandoval motors home. jon jay with an error allows buster posey to clear the bases making it 5-0 giants. right now take a look at pence's hit here. the ball breaks the bat. and then the ball hits the bat. two more times and then the follow through. amazing. top of the 9th now. 9-0. and pouring matt holliday with two on, flies attestor scutaro who was named the series mvp. the giants blank the cards to advance to the world series. the manager bruce bochy knows the team has magic on his side. >> we're a little number right now to be -- number right now to be honest you know with our backs to the walls as long as they've been.

and to do this. this is a special group. they -- they never say die attitude. they didn't want to go home. and they found a way the get it done. -- to get it done. giants had actually the youest homers in the -- fewest homers in the league last year. now in the world series. first team to do that in 20 years. miami finished last in the nl east and canned their manager. one last look at the forecast. >> thanks a lot brian, we're going to stay warm, here's the fox 5 accuweather seven day forecast. 81 tomorrow. brian i think we're going to have a few spots in the lower to mid 80s tomorrow afternoon. >> thanks gary. back here for the news edge at 6:30. [ captions by: caption colorado, llc 800-775-7838 email: comments@captioncolorado.com ] [ male announcer ] if barack obama is re-elected,

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